Basin-maker.



Patented Apr. 2, I90l.

No. 67l,096.

C. J. STUNEHAM.

BASIN MAKER.

(Application filed Jan. 8, 1901.

(No Model.)

In re)? Zvr #22 0272 eye) CHARLES J. STONEI-IAM, OF SIERRA MADRE, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- I-IALF TO GEORGE 'l. STONEIIAM, OF SAME PLACE.

BASIN-MAKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 671,096, dated April 2. 1901.

Application filed January 8, 1901. Serial No. 42,566. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: are hitched. These parts are of the usual Be it known that I, CHARLES J. STONEHAM, construction. Affixed to the rear portion of a citizen of the United States, residing at the frame are hangers D, in which are pivot- Sierra Madre, in the county of Los Angeles, ally-mounted corner-scrapers E, which draw State of California, have invented new and the dirt to fill the openings made in the cross- 55 useful Improvements in Basin-Makers, of ridges by the scraper-wings. These cornerwhich the following is a specification. scrapers are held in their slanting operative My invention relates to machines for formposition by retaining-bar E, which prevents ing irrigating-basins; and the object thereof them from rotating. The retaining-bar is is to provide a single machine by means of affixed to lever H, which is pivotally attached 60 which completed basins may be formed. to the frame and is provided with a stud I at Heretofore machines for forming irrigatingthe other end, which projects through a slot basins have usually consisted of V-shaped J in the floor and when pressed down by scraper-wings having a V-shaped opening at the foot of the operator causes the lever to the apex of the wings. These wings have raise the retaining-bar out of contact with 6 usually been floored over and drawn through the corner-scraper and permit it to turn on the plowed earth with the broad end of the V its pivot and leave the dirt carried thereby in first, thereby drawing the earth into a ridge the opening made in the cross-ridge by the which was left in the center by reason of the scraper-wings, which fills the same and per- V-shaped opening at theapeX of the wings. fects the basin. As these corner-scrapers are These machinesform perfect ridges;butwhen pivotally mounted at their center, in order the cross'ridges are made by such machine that there shall be no failure in the forward openings are made in the ridges first formed, end catching in the dirt I affix to the frame thereby leaving the corner of the basins open. a swinging weight K, which bears upon the 25 These corners have to be filled by another forward end of the corner-scraper as it romachine. These machines are drawn by drafttates and gives it a momentum that causes it animals, and when'the second machine is to catch in the dirt. used to fill in the corners of the basins the Mounted in the frame are crank-rods L, animals very frequently tread on the ridges having arms L in such position that the arm 0 and make holes therein, which have to be maybe turned into the path of the revolution filled by hand, thereby using time and labor of the corner-scraper and prevent its rotation which might be employed elsewhere. With far enough for the forward end to catch in my machine these defects are avoided and I the dirt when it is not desired to operate the am able therewith to complete perfectlycorner-scraper.

5 formed basins when the cross ridges are Having described my invention, what I formed. This I accomplish by the machine claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters described herein and illustrated in the ac- Patent, is

.companying drawings,formingapart hereof, 1. In a basin-maker having a frame and in which-- scraping-wings adapted to form ridges, cor- 40 Figure 1 is a perspective view of my basinnor-scrapers mounted on the rear portion of maker with the top flooring removed, one of the frame, adapted to carry dirt and deposit the corner-scrapers being shown in its operthesame at the cornerof the basin, and means ative position and the other in its inoperative to hold and release said scrapers, substanposition. Figs. 2 and 3 are fragmentary views tially as described herein.

5 showing details of construction. 2. In a basin-maker, having a frame and 5 In the drawings, A A are the frame-timbers scraping-wings adapted to form ridges; coron which the floor A is affixed, which are her-scrapers pivotally mounted in hangers mounted on the scraper-wings B,which form affixed to the rear portion of the frame of the the dirt into ridges. At the front end of the machine; a pivoted lever mounted on said 50 frame is tongue 0, to which the draft-animals frame havingastud on the forward end there- 10o of adapted to project through the floor of the machine; a retaining-bar affixed to the rear end of said lever adapted to stand normally in the path of the revolution of the cornerscrapers.

3. In a basin-makerhaving corner-scrapers, means to prevent said scrapers from scraping, comprising a crank-rod rotatably mounted in the frame and having an arm thereon adapted to be kept in the path of the revolution of the corner-scraper and prevent the forward end thereof from contacting with the dirt.

4. In a basin-makerhaving corner-scrapers, means to cause the forward end of the cornerscraper to contact with the dirt, comprising a swinging weight adapted to contact with and press upon the forward end of said scraper and impart to it a momentum to carry it into contact with the earth.

5. In a basin-maker, the combination of scraping wings adapted to form ridges; a frame mounted on said Wings; a floor on said frame with corner-scrapers pivotally mounted in hangers; and means, substantially as described, to operate said corner-scrapers.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name this 31st day of December, 1900.,

CHAS. J. STONEHAM.

Witnesses:

G. E. HARPHAM, MATTIE MCGINNIS. 

